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when i first read his post i could not help to notice the irony of his user name.

If one brings so much courage to this world the world has to kill them or break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. Earnest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms.

If you are trying to improve performance, I'd suggest a low level disk format... A freshly formatted disk is exactly "in tune" with your present system configuration, the inter-sector gaps are perfectly matched to your system's performance because they were actually written by your system.

This will significantly improve the performance of your system, along with the fact that you'll have to reload the operating system and all of your data files from backups so the layout of the files ought to be optimum too.

Okay, so I did a low-level disk format after I deleted C:\Windows\ and removed all the entries under HKLM in the registry. Thanks for the suggestions.

Realistically, the reason we're enquiring is because it takes about an hour for MSMerge_* to copy across to any new subscriptions from the publisher. It's a painfully slow process. Our thoughts were that if everything is synched up, then the contents of MSMerge_* could be cleared and started fresh. I guess that's not the case with all the sarcasm that was offered.